In this breaking news blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Aviva Aron-Dine, Acting Assistant Secretary on Tax Policy in the Treasury Department, and Alex Jacquez, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Development and Industrial Strategy, to discuss how the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service's new regulation implementing two labor provisions requiring prevailing wages and apprenticeship programs in President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act will impact worker power.
Watch now for an expert breakdown of the new regulations, including the importance of requiring a prevailing wage, why expanding apprenticeship programs will help to build unions, and how these regulations will expand the use of project labor agreements.
For more information and resources, click below:
Treasury’s Final Rules
IRS PWA Fact Sheet
IRS FAQs
DOL Good Clean Energy Jobs Interactive Map
DOL FAQs
Blog Post on Project Labor Agreements by Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo and Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su
White House Fact Sheet
Treasury Press Release
IRS Press Release
Dr. Aviva Aron-Dine is the Acting Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in the Treasury Department where she directs the Office of Tax Policy in developing, recommending, and implementing Federal tax policy on behalf of the Department. She is the former Deputy Director of the White House’s National Economic Council and Executive Associate Director in the Office of Management and Budget.
Alex Jacquez is Special Assistant to the President for Economic Development and Industrial Strategy and was a founding member of Team Labor in the National Economic Council. Before joining the White House staff, Alex was a Senior Policy Adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders.
